H3651C–כֵּן–ken

Take him and keep an eye on him and see that no evil comes to him; but do with him whatever he says to you.

כֵּ֖ן ken “so”

Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us.

כֵּ֥ן ken “so”

Then give ear now to the word of the Lord, O you last of Judah: the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, If your minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there;

לָכֵ֛ן (כֵ֛ן) Khen “therefore”

For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: As my wrath and passion have been let loose on the people of Jerusalem, so will my passion be let loose on you when you go into Egypt: and you will become an oath and a cause of wonder and

כֵּ֣ן ken “so”

For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

כֵּ֥ן ken “so”

So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my face will be turned against you for evil, for the cutting off of all Judah;

לָכֵ֗ן (כֵ֗ן) Khen “therefore”

Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.

כֵּ֞ן ken “-fore”

And now give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: Truly, I have taken an oath by my great name, says the Lord, that my name is no longer to be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt,

לָכֵן֙ (כֵן֙) Khen “therefore”

And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.

כֵ֛ן khen “thus”

From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.

כֵּ֗ן Ken “-fore”

So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken.

לָכֵ֞ן (כֵ֞ן) Khen “therefore”

For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.

כֵּן֙ ken “-fore”

So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.

כֵּ֞ן ken “-fore”כֵּ֛ן ken “-fore”

Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage

לָכֵ֡ן (כֵ֡ן) Khen “therefore”

But after these things, I will let the fate of the children of Ammon be changed, says the Lord.

כֵ֗ן Khen “thus”

For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.

לָכֵ֞ן (כֵ֞ן) Khen “therefore”

So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.

לָכֵ֛ן (כֵ֛ן) Khen “therefore”

So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria.

לָכֵ֗ן (כֵ֗ן) Khen “therefore”

For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

לָכֵ֛ן (כֵ֛ן) Khen “therefore”

For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.

לָכֵ֗ן (כֵ֗ן) Khen “therefore”

So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.

לָכֵ֞ן (כֵ֞ן) Khen “therefore”

Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.

כֵּ֖ן ken “-fore”

For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

לָכֵ֗ן (כֵ֗ן) Khen “therefore”

For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.

לָכֵן֙ (כֵן֙) Khen “therefore”

For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.

לָכֵ֞ן (כֵ֞ן) Khen “therefore”